Friends of Miami Marine Stadium

Description

Friends of Miami Marine Stadium Friends of Miami Marine Stadium was organized in February 2008 to seek restoration of the Miami Marine Stadium. The all volunteer group was organized under the administrative umbrella of Dade Heritage Trust, Miami Dade County’s foremost organization devoted to historic preservation. In January, 2011, Friends of Marine Stadium incorporated as an independent organization and in August, 2011, received approval as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Some of the accomplishments of the Friends of Miami Marine Stadium are: -Historic Designation of the Marine Stadium and Basin by the City of Miami Historic and Environmental Preservation Board in October, 2008 -Advocacy efforts which have resulted in support from groups such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, singer Jimmy Buffett, and the World Monuments Fund -Approval of the Master Plan for Virginia Key by the Miami City Commission in Jury, 2010. The plan makes the Stadium the centerpiece the restoration for Virginia Key. -A publicity campaign which has resulted in local, national, and international press. -An Engineering Study funded by a collection of organizations headed up by the World Monuments Fund which demonstrated that the cost of restoring the concrete in the Stadium was estimated between $5.5-$8.5 million, depending upon how much work would be done to arrest additional deterioration. This amount is much less than the $15 million as previously estimated by the City of